Published: July 31, 2023
Lovejoy was a White Presbyterian minister and editor of the St. Louis Observer — an abolitionist, anti-Jacksonian paper. He moved to Alton, IL after his printing press was destroyed for a third time because of his critical opinions on slavery, where he started the Alton Observer. He was murdered in an attack by a mob on his paper's warehouse in November, 1837.
Resources
- Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War - Edited by Adam Sanchez, Zinn Education Project. A collection of 10 classroom-tested lesson plans on one of the most transformative periods of US history. These lessons encourage students to take a critical look at the popular narrative that focuses on Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator and ignores the resistance of abolitionists and enslaved people.
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